The Chinook Institute for Civic Leadership wants to invite ELGL members to attend a couple of their upcoming events. Take a look below for more information and to register. The Chinook Institute is a non-profit that strives to create and develop better leaders to improve the communities and world that we live in. Each year … Continued
Williamson County, TX Innovation in Business Intelligence and Transparency Wednesday, August 13 10:00 am (PST), 12:00 pm (CST), 1:00 pm (EST) REGISTER When you’re the fastest growing county in the nation, have the most debt of any other County in your state, and need to cut costs while providing open transparency to the public – what … Continued
Oregon Metro is the newest sponsor for the Mayor Hales/Mayor Ballard conversation about sustainability! Thank you, Metro, for supporting this important conversation.
Join us on July 17 at 5:00 pm for a get together with the publisher of Governing magazine. Mark Funkhouser is coming to Portland and ELGL is partnering with Portland State to host a social hour with him. So join us at Base Camp Brewing in Southeast Portland for this fun event. RSVP
ELGL members Kent and Kirsten Wyatt trained a group of Daly City, CA employees last week on using social media in local government. It was a diverse group with staff from police, fire, city manager’s office, city attorney’s office, building officials, and more. The training consisted of two parts: a review of Facebook and Twitter use … Continued
You’re invited to a special forum featuring Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales. Mayor Ballard and Mayor Hales will chat about sustainability topics.
Southeast ELGL board member Michael O’Brien, the founder and principal of MOB Advocacy, will be MCing a webinar on “Smart Cities.” He’s chosen three startup companies that are getting national recognition for the work they are doing to talk to the ELGL membership.
http://youtu.be/YqY7e4bP9PQ OCCMA Coaches Gallery Are you an emerging leader looking for a mentor? Are you wanting to figure out what city management is all about? If so, check out the new Coaches Gallery on the OCCMA website! The Coaches Gallery provides a one stop shop for you to view and select from a list of … Continued
First off, we must thank Randy Ealy, Beaverton’s Chief Administrative Officer for arranging ELGL’s visit to the Beaverton Building. If you missed the event, you missed why it is being called the Beaverton Building instead of city hall. Here is recap of what else we learned. Picture Show: ELGL Visits the Beaverton Building Meeting Agenda … Continued
We apologize for the inconvenience to those that have registered but today’s (Oct. 2) micronetworking event with representatives from Hennebery Eddy has been cancelled. If you registered you’ll receive a refund. Please email kirsten@sarahhellems.wpengine.com if you have any questions. Planning and building a new local government facility, is an opportunity to leave a legacy that will … Continued
